Mike Wiendels
@mikewiend
Mike Wiendels
The best way to not let a project’s spectacular success get you too high or its spectacular failure get you too low, Ryan likes to say, is to be already working on the next project by the time the many deciding factors decide that success or failure.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." But this holds true for leadership in general—give people space and they flourish.
On intuition and asking for feedback:
“Henry Ford didn’t need focus groups to tell him that people would prefer inexpensive, dependable automobiles over horses. Alexander Graham Bell never stopped to worry about whether people would prefer speaking to each other on the phone. If viewers liked watching news on television, why wouldn’t they want the
... See moreA principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.
- Bill Bernbach
Though taste may appear effortless, you can’t have taste by mistake. It requires intention, focus, and care. Taste is a commitment to a state of attention. It’s a process of peeling back layer after layer, turning over rock after rock. As John Saltivier says in an essay about building a set of stairs, “surprising detail is a near universal property... See more
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
Eventually we’ll have machines that can dream. But there’ll always still be the hard, dumb, bottleneck that is human effort. You shape what you make and it shapes you right back. When you get stuck nothing is going to help you get unstuck except sheer stubbornness and self-driven motion. That’s the most rewarding part though: if you expend enough... See more